Free startcom software for linux

StartCom Linux is based on the Red Hat AS source code.
Specially designed for the demanding home user, the MultiMedia Edition lets you easily communicate with your friends and family members over the Internet, browse the news or watching the latest DVD movie you just bought.
Listen to your loved Music while you check your email or play some funny game while you burn a CD, everything is easily accessible from your desktop by a click on your mouse button.
System configuration and adjustments of your preferences never have been so simple, thanks to the integrated configuration tools.
Enhancements:
- StartCom has released its new Multimedia Edition, ML-5.0.5, code named Kessem. Its probably one of the largest and most complete Linux distributions ever released to the public. Release ML-5.0.5, offers many out-of-the-box capabilities, never bundled with an operating system before. Designed as a multimedia workstation with music studio and advanced video editing applications, it also provides the desktop user with the most applications for day to day use.

Linux is a UNIX like Operating System, famous for its reliability and security features, that runs on all kinds of computers. Linux was started by Linus Torwalds in 1991. The Linux Kernel and most applications it offers, are mostyl GPL licensed, called Open Source.
StartCom Enterprise Linux operating systems, are based on the RedHat Enterprise and Fedora source code each modified with reliability, security and efficiency in mind, to fit the tasks assigned to each flavor of StartCom Linux.
View the Screenshots to get an idea how StartCom Linux looks.
Enhancements:
- The newest StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.0 joins a series of successful and reliable operating systems build and distributed over the last three years by StartCom Ltd. This latest release provides full support for virtualization - the running of multiple instances of operating systems on one physical hardware unit. Depending on the installation preferences, AS-5.0.0 can function as server platform as well as advanced client workstation.
- StartCom Linux is using the latest in open source technology and with its known stability, reliability and security allows for mission-critical server deployments. The Global File System (GFS) provided in AS-5.0.0 allows the building and maintaining of high availability computer clusters, mainly used for data centers.
- The natural support of the XEN hypervisor, makes the running of multiple virtualized server instances possible. The benefits of server virtualization are consolidation, increased utilization, an ability to rapidly provision and start a virtual machine, and increased ability to dynamically respond to hardware failures by moving a virtual machine to different hardware.
- The enhanced usability of the desktop applications makes AS-5.0.0 also an excellent choice for client and development workstations. Many well known products such as Firefox, OpenOffice and Eclipse IDE are provided already during installation as possible options.
- StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.0 codenamed "Kishuf" is available for Intel i386 and AMD x86_64 architectures. DVD ISO images can be downloaded for free or ordered for a nominal fee. Alternative installation options via network or harddrive are also available.